Within the shattered barrier's boundary, the two faced each other from afar.
The mysterious figure's gaze pierced through the mist shrouding him as he coldly looked down at the boy before him. He could not help but feel that the Restricted Area being he followed had made far too much of this.
Why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?
Naturally, he had no way of knowing that the black-haired boy before him had been the Peerless Sacred Body in his previous life—the one who had caused countless Restricted-Area Supremes to suffer, even forcing them to pay with their lives.
The only reason he had come this time was because the Restricted Areas, having learned from several previous incidents, had completely cast aside their dignity.
Upon hearing that a First-Generation Golden Body had emerged in this Lifetime, they had sent him to snuff it out in advance!
To prevent another "Blood Calamity" like the previous times.
Ever since the Ancient Era, whenever an Indestructible Golden Body reached Great Accomplishment and encountered a Dark Turmoil, they would never stand idly by.
Over time, this lineage had become regarded by the beings of the Restricted Areas as the greatest obstacle to their turmoil.
Especially during the two Dark Turmoils two hundred thousand years ago, a total of ten Restricted-Area Supremes had fallen at the hands of the Great Accomplished Golden Body surnamed Tan and the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor.
What a painful lesson that had been!
A warning from the past, unforgettable through the ages.
From then on, the several great Restricted Areas had tacitly established an ironclad rule: no matter whose wisp of divine sense was standing watch during an era, whenever traces of this lineage were discovered—
They had to be completely strangled in the cradle before they could